The Top Fortune Employer Stocks
02/01/08 - 09:31 AM EST
Updated from 9:31 a.m. EST
The latest issue of Fortune magazine features its list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For, the businesses that really take care of their employees. Stockpickr has reviewed the list, extracted the publicly traded companies and compiled the top 10 best companies. One of the highest stocks on the list is California-based biotech company Genentech(DNA Quote - Cramer on DNA - Stock Picks). Its colorectal cancer drug, Avastin, recently was approved for marketing to patients in the European Union, in partnership with Roche. The stock has a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 27 and a P/E-to-growth (PEG) ratio of 0.95. Genentech is a stock that's owned by the Franklin Biotechnology Discovery Fund, which invests at least 80% of its assets in biotech companies. The fund also owns Gilead Sciences(GILD Quote - Cramer on GILD - Stock Picks), which has a PEG of 1.3, Celgene(CELG Quote - Cramer on CELG - Stock Picks), with a PEG of 1.4, and Amgen(AMGN Quote - Cramer on AMGN - Stock Picks), with a PEG of 1.1. Cisco Systems(CSCO Quote - Cramer on CSCO - Stock Picks) is another "great place to work" company, providing an average annual pay of $132,000. The company just came out with a new data center switch that can copy all of the searchable data on the Internet in less than 8 minutes. The company's earnings call is scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 6. The stock has a P/E of 19 and a PEG of 1.1. Cisco is held by Atticus Capital, a $13 billion hedge fund based in New York that was up 45% in 2005 and 32.2% in 2006. Atticus also likes Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold(FCX Quote - Cramer on FCX - Stock Picks), which has a PEG of 0.2, NYSE Euronext(NYX Quote - Cramer on NYX - Stock Picks), with a 1.1 PEG, and Union Pacific(UNP Quote - Cramer on UNP - Stock Picks), with a PEG of 1. Another company employees like working for is Starbucks(SBUX Quote - Cramer on SBUX - Stock Picks), where founder Howard Schultz is returning to the CEO role. The stock has a P/E of 22nd a PEG of 1. Navellier & Associates, a hedge fund has been run by Louis Navellier since 1980, owns Starbucks stock. Navellier also invests in Nvidia(NVDA Quote - Cramer on NVDA - Stock Picks), which has a PEG of 1, CME Group(CME Quote - Cramer on CME - Stock Picks), with a 1.5 PEG, and America Movil(AMX Quote - Cramer on AMX - Stock Picks), with a 0.6 PEG. To see all of the top publicly traded companies to work for, go to Stockpickr.com.


